Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-28

vi lAo 4ouuSylVauld ~. h.S NEAR
Monanoqua, the train dispatcher at Honey
Pot allowed two freight trains, travelling
In opposite directions, to come together on q
sipgle track. The trains were running at
the rate OF 20 miles an hour, and collided on
. deep curve. The engineers and fremen
jumped and saved their lives. The collision
was heard for miles. Four box cars loaded
with giant powder exploded with terrific
force. tearing up the rocks, tracks, ties and
about Is cars. The latter caught fire and,
with their contents, were destroyed. Three
brakemen were killed. Some Of the cars
were thrown by the force of the explosion a
distances Of an eighth OF mile. The loss to
the railroad company win be 500, GOO. Both
engines were thrown down the embank.
ment and are Q total wreck.
Another severe gale has visited St.
Johns coast N. B., doing great damage to
the shipping. Bonavista presents q dread.
full scene. All sorts OF wreckage is strewn
indiscriminately about the streets. Tween
ty boats were driven ashore and seven sunk
at their moorings. Not vestage of the
fish stages was left standing Only two
fore-nnd-afters were insured, and the loss
will be heavy. At st. Johns man named
Learing was blown overheard from . wharf
and drowned. ~. ~ t&% %@& A
Lizzie Hoyle, disappeared from
Webster, Mass, Sept. i, and on the Goth he1
body was found in corn crib in barn on
the Aldrich place at Oxford, She had been
murdered. Her head was covered with q
cloth, and her feet and hands tied with
rope. The body was SO well concealed that
odor Of decaying flesh led passersby to
make an investiga alton.
A Washington dispatch says that
Gen. N. P. Banks, United States Marshal
for Massachusetts,; is in danger Of losing
his position on account OF confusion In his
accounts. There is no doubt of his integrity
and no shortage, but his method of manag.
ing the office is said not to satisfy the strict
business standard Of the Washington
officials. sl y AtA5 e. tf@ If ~ 1st5
Fourteen proposals were received fol
building the new court house at Winona,
Mimi, raging from $lO5, 400 to $lG7, COO
Munck & LOhse were the lowest bidders
The commissioners went into executive
session to consider the proposals., aud dis
position was shown by some TO alter the
plans so IS to bring the price within $780,
AT Waterbury, Coaa., Ex-Repre-
sentative Calvin 81. Carter, president Of
the Detroit y Lake Superior Copper com.
Williams college, died uddenly Of apo
plexy, just after leaving the bath. He wa
aman Of marked ability. %5S55 s5s
The First national bank, Of Cory,
Pa, having been embarrassed BY the recent
failure of an OIL company in that town, wa,
closed by the bank examiner. The asset,
and liabilities have not been made public
United States Senator Mop herson, o.
New jersey, will not be candidate forre-
nomination Il, to do 60, means : heated
contest k aS4 81 sBE N Ss
Fire at DANNY, Que. destroyed over
100 houses and the railway station. As "a,
. heard no lives were Lost ,s8s Ii 3f n
il Is said that =. s. Wheeler q Co.
OF New Haven we're not honest in theil
business transactions M
Az New X ork, Judge Brown finee
Henry George for not answ ering q summon
,to appear 90 q juror,
Lorillard's brick yard, 1t Keyport
n =. !, took Are and burned. Loss S1oo, COO l
no insurance. 81
Rev, ]. a. Cope and, of Rochester
n. has been converted 70 the George
theory.
Henry Brewster, the noted carriags
manufAe turer 81 New York, died, aged es.
Nicholson, private secretary x
presiden KING, 81 the Ilrie railway, has sais
that the runlors off the presid ency q